A Shoe Full of Events
Please Don't Move
A selection of texts by the Egyptian playwright Basem Sharaf was staged when Det Åpne Teater (The Open Theatre) launched A Shoe Full of Events (Please Don't Move) or Åpen Tekst 4* (Open Text 4) in The House of Literature in Oslo during The Contemporary Stage Festival 2009.
Basem Sharaf was personally present during the launch and the reading.
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
Information
(Objekt ID 6694)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | September 5, 2009 |
| Produced by | The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) |
| Coproducers | The House of Literature |
| In collaboration with | NORLA |
| Based on | A Shoe Full of Events (Please Don't Move) by Basem Sharaf |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Reading, Theatre |
| Website | Det Åpne Teater, Litteraturhuset |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
The autumn of 2007 Det Åpne Teater (The Open Theatre) was contacted by NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad, Fiction & Non-fiction) about the Egyptian writer and playwright Basem Sharaf. Two years later the Norwegian edition of his collection of one-act plays called A Shoe Full of Events (Please Don't Move) or Åpen Tekst 4* (Open Text 4) was ready to be launched at The House of Literature in Oslo. Åpen Tekst* (Open Text) is a series of international and Norwegian stage texts published by Det Åpne Teater (The Open Theatre).
Basam Sharaf's texts in A Shoe Full of Events (Please Don't Move) originate in a marginalised sub-reality, without retouch or beautifying makeup. The compactness is the aesthetic question in this collection of short texts: How is it possible to bring forward the whole world in a text perhaps no longer than a line, still carrying about almost limitless associations of mythology and symbolism? Sharaf tries to realise what K. T. Rowe is talking about in the book A theatre in your head – the reader can personally stage the texts while reading.
The texts were translated to Norwegian by Wetle Holtan in collaboration with Jan Junchelka.
Source: Det Åpne Teater (The Open Theatre), detapneteater.no, 30.09.2010, http://www.detapneteater.no/pub/daat/forestillinger/?aid=1160&cid=17&sac=all&viewall=1#daat
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Basem Sharaf | – Script |
| Aslak Moe | – Direction |
| Ragnhild Mærli | – Dramaturge |
| Axel Aubert | – Actor |
| Kaia Varjord | – Actor |
| Randolf Walderhaug | – Actor |
| September 5, 2009 15:00 – Kverneland, The House of Literature | National premiere, Norway |